Originally Posted by
jemoryl
The company actually has a very interesting history:
Bata Shoes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those photos of the Bata factory in Maryland remind me of some of the shoe factories where my father worked in Johnson City and Endicott, NY.
Mom used to take us to the factory to buy "seconds"........They weren't so cool back in the day. We used to call them "fish-heads" and we made up a little song to accompany the trip to get our shoes
Fish heads, they make your feet feel fine.
Fish heads, they cost a dollar ninety-nine
Fish heads....etc, etc,etc....
Mom was not so amused.
